Living in Jericho, NY: Income, Home Values, Schools, Taxes and Commute

Jericho is a hamlet in the Town of Oyster Bay with 14,808 residents at the 2020 census. This page lays out what public data show: income, home values, schools, bill dates, the commute and the water district. It sits among the other North Shore towns, and its next-door neighbors in this guide are Syosset and East Norwich.

Is Jericho wealthy? Income, home values and rents

Jericho’s median household income is $167,935 in the Census Bureau’s ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates, with a margin of error of $31,995. Median family income is $198,550 for the same years, with a margin of error of $20,073. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $948,400, with a margin of error of $26,922. Median gross rent is $2,661 a month, with a margin of error of $352.

The hamlet is mostly owner-occupied. Of 4,306 occupied housing units, 3,427 are owned and 879 are rented. The median home was built in 1960. The ACS population is 13,759, against 14,808 at the 2020 census. The hamlet had 4,597 households. Jericho covers 4.1 square miles, all land.

Schools: Jericho and Syosset school districts

The Jericho area is served by the Jericho Union Free and Syosset Central School Districts. The district boundaries differ somewhat from those of the hamlet, and the Jericho Post Office boundaries differ from both.

The New York State Education Department’s report card profile for Jericho UFSD lists 3,230 K-12 public school students for 2024-25, including 223 English Language Learners. The four-year graduation rate is 99%, and expenditures are $41,005 per pupil on the state’s financial transparency report. Attendance is 95% and the suspension rate is 1%. Chronic absenteeism is 21.8% in high school and 7.4% in grades 1 to 8. Average class size is 12 in kindergarten and 14 in grade 1. The Jericho UFSD profile has the district’s full state data. For how districts compare across the shore, see the North Shore school districts guide, and for the Syosset side see Syosset.

Property taxes in Jericho: due dates and STAR

Jericho taxes are billed in the Town of Oyster Bay, whose Receiver of Taxes handles more than 100,000 parcels. The office collects State, County, Town, special district and school district taxes on budgets that the respective municipal authorities adopt. Each bill carries a 40-day penalty-free period between the due date and the penalty date.

Missing the last day without penalty costs 1% per month, charged retroactively to the original due date. The collection period ends May 31 for school taxes and August 31 for general taxes. Grievances go to the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission. The 2026 window closed March 31, 2026, after the County extended it. The Town’s page gives the usual grievance period as January 2 to March 1. The next opportunity to file follows the County’s next tentative assessment roll.

New owners register for the STAR credit with the NYS Tax Department as soon as the home becomes their primary residence, and the Basic or Enhanced credit follows from what they qualify for. The STAR exemption is closed to new applicants: owners who have received it since 2015 keep it on the same primary residence. The Basic STAR credit has a $500,000 income limit, and the benefit is based on the first $30,000 of a home’s full value. Enhanced STAR gives seniors aged 65 and older a larger benefit, with an income limit of $110,750 for the 2026-2027 school year. The property must be the primary residence of an eligible owner. For county-wide mechanics, see Nassau County property taxes.

Commuting from Jericho by LIRR

Jericho is approximately 29 miles east of Midtown Manhattan. Hicksville station is a commuter rail station on the Main Line and Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Electrifying the Main Line through Hicksville introduced direct electric train service to Penn Station. In 1958 the state Department of Transportation demolished “Old Jericho” to widen Broadway (Routes 106 and 107) and to build a cloverleaf access to Jericho Turnpike.

Water district and local history

The Jericho Water District was founded in 1923, and the water tower was erected in 1952.

Jericho was part of the Robert Williams Plantation in 1648. The English families who settled here were, or soon became, Quakers. The area was renamed from Lusum to Jericho in 1692, and a post office was established in 1802. The Friends Meeting House, built in 1788, is still in use. A volunteer fire department was established in 1938, and the 1950s brought suburban housing on land Phebe Underhill Seaman sold to developers. The main entrance to SUNY Old Westbury is in Jericho, and many retail and industrial businesses line Cantiague Rock Road in the Jericho Gardens section. The hamlet has a transitional climate between humid subtropical and hot-summer humid continental. The hamlet is a census-designated place in the Town of Oyster Bay, in Nassau County.